On Monday 23 September 2013 21:27:46 Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:59:56AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > I then had to manually start pulseaudio with "service pulseaudio > > start." This worked but still no sound. with tools > preferences > > > audio pointed it to pulseaudio for its output device. I started > > an arbitrary icecast and under Audio > Visualizations picked the > > VU meters. These showed that I was receiving a signal. I then > > started the PulseAudio Volume Meter and found that I was also > > getting a signal out of pulseaudio. I still don't have any sound. > > Check if any of your playback controls are muted. It belatedly > occurred to me to take a look at the pulseaudio page on the debian > wiki. It seems to describe solutions to almost every problem, if > not every problem we're seeing in this thread so far from everyone. > All of you have read that page, right? That probably should have > been the first question I should have asked when this got started. > > <https://wiki.debian.org/en/PulseAudio>
I'm ashamed to say that I hadn't, but I had in fact found most of it one way or another anyway. There was one suggestion that seemed just possibly relevant, and hey! I'm getting desperate. I tried it, but still no further forward. But I finally googled how, and looked at my boot log (/var/log/messages). I got the following that seems relevant, although slighly old: <quote> Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.604811] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.614723] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.622527] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.654405] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.702246] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.718566] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.734471] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.758274] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.782299] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.806053] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.877717] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II pulseaudio[3521]: [pulseaudio] alsa-util.c: Unable to load mixer: Invalid argument Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 10.885634] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 11.101845] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 08:18:31 Tux-II kernel: [ 11.106061] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 16:35:07 Tux-II kernel: [29711.421558] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 17 22:47:10 Tux-II shutdown[14551]: shutting down for system halt Sep 17 22:47:11 Tux-II kernel: [51963.300984] hda_codec: num_steps = 0 for NID=0xc (ctl = Front Playback Volume) Sep 18 07:33:01 Tux-II kernel: imklog 5.8.11, log source = /proc/kmsg started. </quote> TIA Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201309232350.04421.lisi.re...@gmail.com
